mist

It's just kind of crazy to me the amount of DAO-specific lines of code that have been put into apparently Mist and Geth, e.g. just search "DAO" on these links [1], [2] How many many man hours have been spent on introducing a single DAO-fork feature into the code? They didn't even build it as a generic "community referendum fork" feature just something specific to this situation? They can say "the community decides" but the community didn't decide to dedicate that amount of dev resources to putting a band-aid on a single community member's fuckup. What a mess. [1] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/1b2941cd56d69... [2] https://github.com/ethereum/mist/commits/0.8.1

The developers appear to be treating this as a dev environment - "We were starting a new team (welcome @hiddentao, @evertonfraga and @luclu) and I was pushing for weekly releases, without proper testing. Meanwhile the DAO happened, and we wanted to make a release that had support for events subscription without realizing the performance impact it would have..." https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases/tag/0.7.5 I realize this is the wallet development but they are absolutely related and shows the culture of this software is not as professional or thought out as it should be.

Just download the mist wallet and mine on the test network which is what you should be doing if you are playing with it anyway. https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases